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The more interesting stat would be what % of the fanbase that were attending prior to stadium moves continued to attend following the move. Given Wasps assertion that a huge % of tickets sold are to CV postcodes could it be that a similar % of their fanbase stopped attending. The fact that they...

I couldn't name a single rugby player without looking it up. I know Wasps had one player who had waited all his life to play at the Ricoh and then left them! A quick shout around the office and no one here has the slightest interest in the World Cup or rugby in general, not scientific I know...

Even with the huge number of free tickets and the publicity around moving to the Ricoh they were still only getting an average of about 15K a game with a couple of exceptions (the first game and when all the Leicester fans turned up). We are averaging over 11K in the third tier. Their...

Be very interested to know what, if anything, was shown to the FL to indicate progress. We're now into year 3 of a 3 year project for a new stadium. Even if you allow the 2 extra years for slippage surely something should have happened by now? When this whole charade started I thought they'd...

For inclusion in the city plan do you have to actually give details of a potential site or just say we need 60 acres? The way the Coventry city plan is talked about is that any site that becomes available is to be used for housing but I'm not sure all those sites have been individually...

ACL took out a loan to purchase the lease. There was an agreement that any profit ACL made would be used to make overpayments on the loan so until that loan was repaid our 50% stake would have generated no income for the club. Of course originally we were supposed to get 50% of the freehold but...

That's easy, Coventry.

Don't they run a shuttle bus from the station to the ground? If they don't they should do.

Well the rent on the ground is £100K, I can't find a rent for the club shop but unit 2 is £30K, no idea how that compares in size. Is anyone still at Citybase or have they moved to the Butts and / or Ryton. Can't imagine the Butts is costing a lot so the rent is probably around £1m cheaper...

Its worrying in so far as even the independent experts rolled out by CWR and CT have said to compete at a higher level that we are currently at we need our own ground and we're relying on him to make it happen.

They've painted the media area black, looks absolutely ridiculous. The bowl of the stadium is Sky Blue apart from one section! Suppose some will say not a big deal but its just another small step towards the whole ground being yellow and black.

They would have done (or should have done) but frankly they didn't care as stadium ownership wasn't part of the Ranson plan that was sold to SISU as a great investment. His idea was small investment in the team, in relative terms, get promotion and cash in. In fact the reason we ended up with...

Hang on, you're changing the question now. The question was would SISU have purchased ACL if they had been made the offer to buy on the same terms as Wasps. I explained why I thought they'd take the deal now you're talking about a prospectus. Care to post a copy of this prospectus that...

I am 100% certain there has never been any plan to build a new stadium and SISU's endgame was to get ownership of the Ricoh. Maybe to flip as a package with the club, maybe to load with debt as Wasps have done. I'm also 100% certain they wanted the stadium as cheaply as possible. I can easily...

OK, if you want to change the semantics fine. Point still stands, would you really expect someone like Fisher to make a statement putting the blame on himself?

Wasn't that £24m just to buy the rights to matchday revenue streams?

I haven't played FIFA for years, probably since the late 90s. You lot going on about it has persuaded me to part with £300 to get the game and a console so it better be bloody good!

Worse than that. Wasps paid the council and Higgs £2.77m each so got the whole lot for £5.5m.

Don't think that really tells us much. There is no way his statement was going to be we're screwed and I've royally messed up.

I don't think we'd be in the same position. From what CCC were starting we would have been looking at buying the Ricoh at either the 2 year or 4 year point. Of course by then the truth about ACL's performance would have most likely come out putting SISU in the driving seat for any ownership...